Silent Running
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Silent Running

1972 • 89 min • Adventure · Science Fiction · Drama

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Best from age 8
48
Movie Knight Score
652 reviews
  • 33 Reviewers · 3 · 53%
  • 64 Audience · 649 · 47%

Katika siku za usoni ambapo mimea ya Dunia imetoweka, mtaalamu wa mimea ndani ya kituo cha anga za juu anatunza misitu ya mwisho. Anapoamriwa kuiharibu, anaasi, akianza safari ya upweke na roboti wenzake ili kuhifadhi mazingira.

Violence & peril
2/10
Language
1/10
Drinking, drugs & smoking
0/10
Romance & sensuality
0/10
Scary moments
3/10

Heads up

  • Mazingira ya kituo cha anga za juu yanaweza kuhisi kuwa finyu
  • Kuna matukio makali ya kukimbizana na uharibifu
  • Mada za kupoteza na hatima ya binadamu

What it models well

  • Uhifadhi wa mazingira
  • Kujali viumbe hai
  • Uaminifu na urafiki
  • Kutetea yaliyo sahihi

Talk about it after

  • Umuhimu wa uhifadhi wa mazingira
  • Ni nini humfanya mtu kuwa rafiki?
  • Matokeo ya vitendo vya binadamu
  • Maisha ya upweke na kutengwa

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Top billed cast

Director: Douglas Trumbull • Crew: Deric Washburn, Michael Cimino, Steven Bochco

Trailers & clips

Silent Running (50th Anniversary) | Bruce Dern Teaches Poker to Robots

Silent Running HD Trailer Remastered and Reconstructed

Silent Running (1972) - Saying Goodbye Scene (10/10) | Movieclips

Silent Running (1972) - Saving the Forest Scene (9/10) | Movieclips

Silent Running (1972) - Running Over Huey Scene (8/10) | Movieclips

Silent Running (1972) - Silent Running Scene (6/10) | Movieclips

Silent Running (1972) - Burying the Body Scene (5/10) | Movieclips

Silent Running (1972) - Through Saturn's Rings Scene (4/10) | Movieclips

Reviewer notes

Not recommended

A botanist (Bruce Dern) on a deep space mission tries to stop the corporate machine from destroying his small "forest" aboard his inter-planetary freighter. When his shipmates decide to implement the order he takes matters into his own hands. It is vaguely portentous of events yet to come - and has a poignancy about not knowing what you've lost until you haven't got it any more. It's the first film I recall seeing...

Recommended

This was a thoughtful sci-fi story. Bruce Dern appears as a bit of a deranged scientist in what may be his most likable role ever, which says a lot about the roles he has played. He is a caring scientist, except he kills all his companions in a spacecraft. Well, can he still be likable? He has a motivation for doing this which is more than the motivation for his other villains. Here, he means to save plant lif...

Not recommended

Silent Running features another unhinged performance from Bruce Dern. He plays Freeman Lowell, a scientists aboard a spaceship looking after the only remaining examples of Earth's plant life as it heads off to Saturn. Lowell has become attached to the eco-system in the spaceship and less with his crew mates who he kills when they receive orders to destroy the plant life. On his own, alienated, staving off ma...

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